CentOS 5 x86_64 -- where is up2date?

[james at jamesmcdonald.id.au]

> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007, Collins Richey wrote:
>>On 9/8/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
>>> I'm trying to create an install server with all updates
>>> installed, using a script that works on CentOS 4.5, but fails on
>>> CentOS 5.0 as the /usr/bin/up2date program isn't available.
>>>
>>> ``yum search up2date'' returns references to up2date, but when I
>>> run ``yum install up2date'' it doesn't find anything to update.
>>>
>>
>>My belief is that up2date is gone. I don't have CentOS5 up at the
>>moment, but at work our local repositories for RHEL5 use yum, whereas
>>the earlier releases used up2date.
>>
>>Even if you do find a usable up2date, you'd better get cracking with
>>converting your scripts to use yum, since that's the wave of the
>>future.
>
> That makes sense.
>
> My script is based on one I found for merging updates with the
> base distribution, and it used ``up2date --showall'', presumably
> to get a list of the current versions of all packages.
>
> Looking at the various options for ``yum list'' and trying them,
> it doesn't appear that there's an easy option that gives the
> Latest & Greatest version of all packages.  Parsing and comparing
> the RPM version and release is not trivial as there's little
> consistency in the way these are set, and they're often a
> combination of alpha and numeric.
>
> Bill
I thought Redhat used the kickstart package to do a "snapshot" build style
of installation.